XenApp does a decent job distributing users out of the box, but one of the things that can catch users off guard is receiving a server that is very busy that is still accepting new connections, or worse, not accepting connections at all, despite having plenty of free resources. Both […]
Lots of stuff today, so I figured I would combine some handy links for what I’m lovingly calling “release-ageddon”. NetScaler 11 55.20 – Download – Release notes XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 2 – Download – What’s New – Citrix Blog XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 3 – Download […]
Citrix has released Feature Pack 2 for XenApp / XenDesktop 7.6 enabling some exciting new features. Perhaps one of the most anticipated releases is the arrival of Receiver 4.3 as well as Storefront 3.0, which include support for the X1 project, unifying the user experience across platform specific native receivers […]
As previously announced at Citrix Summit 2015, one of the key new features for 7.6 FP1 is Session Recording. Some users may remember SmartAuditor, which offered a way to record sessions and was an invaluable tool for the organizations that deployed it. That functionality didn’t make the transition from IMA […]
XenDesktop and XenApp 7.6 come with a solid set of features behind them that make this a particularly exciting release. You can grab the files here. Among the more exciting features are: XenApp 6.5 migration utility Session Linger Session Pre-Launch Unauthenticated (anonymous) user access The full “What’s New” documentation is […]
I’ve seen some talk recently about updating properly sizing workloads and anticipating expected usage on XenApp – and all of it is extremely good – however the question still comes up often enough in IRC, I thought it was worth a mention: How large should I make my XenApp server? […]
Today Citrix announced that they are working hard to close the gap in missing features between 6.5 and 7.x, finally delivering anonymous login and session linger and bringing back the much desired, but swiftly-absent, pre-launch. You can read the whole press release, but the jist of it is below: Anonymous logins […]
If you are looking to configure COM or LPT redirection in XenDesktop 7.x, you might be at a loss when you find the policies aren’t where you’d expect them. Fortunately, the functionality still exists, however its days are numbered. Citrix has officially deprecated the feature and now requires that you […]
Check out the Citrix Downloads section to grab NetScaler 10.5 and XenApp 6.5 HRP04. NetScaler 10.5 has a number of enhancements, including the elimination of java from the GUI, making the UI incredibly responsive and allowing easier administration as java security settings no longer block various portions of the UI. […]
Citrix Provisioning Server 6 and above provide disk versioning, which is extremely useful for ensuring you can properly test your updates before moving to production. I created the script below to duplicate all of my published applications so that I may launch them from the test server(s) I have booted. […]
